I’ve been saying that that if our education system – the Government Education Complex – falls, it will fall quickly. It will appear unassailable up until it simply collapses of its own weight, expense, and internal contradictions. I think that is starting to happen, and I think the Parent Trigger is an idea that will accelerate that process. That is why it deserves support.

As you may have read, parents at McKinley Elementary in Compton, California, on Tuesday submitted petitions to convert the failing school into a charter school under California’s “parent trigger” law.…